Serena Muhammad

As the Deputy Director of the Saint Louis MHB, Serena is responsible for managing the organization’s $14,000,000 community investment strategy. In this capacity, Serena leads cross-sector initiatives that focus on alleviating the social, educational, and health inequities that keep people and places from reaching their full potential. Her recent appointment as the Managing Director of the COVID-19 Regional Response Team, allowed her to lend her expertise in system building to strengthen the crisis response infrastructure in the St. Louis region. Serena staffs the St. Louis Area Violence Prevention Commission and is active in several criminal justice reform efforts. She also provides oversight to the System of Care St. Louis, a federally funded initiative to improve access to behavioral health services for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.  

Serena is a member of the City of St. Louis Joint Board of Health and Hospitals and also served as the Founding Board Chair of Build Missouri Health - an affiliated nonprofit of the Missouri Foundation for Health. Serena received her B.A in English from Xavier University in Louisiana and her M.F.A. and M.P.P.A. from University of Missouri – St. Louis.